Cluster-based routing scheme for Wireless Mesh Networks

摘要

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) is a part of Ad-hoc network. WMNs is very emerging and fast growing technology in wireless field. WMN has many research fields and one of them is routing field. Many routing protocol has been proposed and works by researchers for WMNs but still it's requires many works in this field. Exiting routing protocol has path discovery with help of broadcast method. Due to this reason node requires many power and message collision and congestion occurs in network. Toward this direction, we proposed a cluster-based routing protocol in which all nodes in mesh network grouped into different clusters, each cluster or group has cluster head (CH). In our proposal, we use path discovery with the help of unicast method. Unicast method helps communication in a way that networks have very less congestion and data loss too.